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Topic Lesson 21: //**Tucket's Travels**//

Common Core Standards RL5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. W5.3a-e Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will identify events in sequential order. 2. Students will write a procedural paragraph.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts
 * __ Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, __ by Paul Erickson
 * __ If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon, __ by Ellen Levine and Elroy Freem
 * __ Roughing It on the Oregon Trail, __ by Diane Stanley
 * __ Hatchet, __ by Gary Paulsen
 * __ Woods Runner, __ by Gary Paulsen
 * __ Brian's Winter, __ by Gary Paulsen

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Activities
 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 549. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "A Big Responsibility" or "Breaking News."

Assessments

1. Practice Workbook, pages 241-242 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T57 and R18 3. Weekly Test, 21.5-21.6

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